Dr Kelly Peterson

Trust is so important to me. I understand how scarce trust is today in general, but it is especially important to have when it comes to trusting someone with something so personal as your teeth and your smile. After all, your smile is such a defining factor of who you are. Because I understand that trust is earned, everything I have done as a dentist is intentional to building genuine trust; from the quality of people I hire to work with me, to making dental mastery a lifelong pursuit, to taking the time to develop real relationships with my clients. Changing lives through changing people's smiles makes me so excited. I started in my pursuit of dentistry because I hoped I would find a career that would satisfy both my curiosity to learn demanding science and the joy l had experienced with my art endeavors. Not coming from a family of dentists, it was a big leap of faith to start along that path. As it turned out, there was also an unanticipated reward I found when helping patients to health—they so often became friends! In addition I get to to find and bond with my amazing “second family” of teammates. Dentistry has been an even more perfect match for me than I imagined. I'm so thankful I'm a dentist, I can't wait to come to work every day, and I can't imagine having done anything else for a career.